Articles Tagged “New Zeeland”
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And then there were two…
Thus the rugby world cup is drawing to to a close. As I am posting this, Australia is challenging Wales for the soon-to-be-forgotten title of Third at the cup. That’s worse than saying “from all who lost, I was the first”. This will be remembered as a slick, entertaining and mostly incident free world cup [...]
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Springbok team to face Namibia
The springbok team to face Namibia has been announced. P Divvy made 5 changes from the team that beat Fiji. I’m glad to see that he decided to rest a few players, I’m also glad that Chilliboy and Juan de Jongh are in the squad, but I would’ve preffered them to be in the starting [...]
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Russia vs USA teams
Russia v USA, Stadium Taranaki, New Plymouth – 09:30 Russia: 15 Igor Klyuchnikov, 14 Vladimir Ostroushko, 13 Konstantin Rachkov, 12 Alexey Makovetskiy, 11 Vasily Artemyev, 10 Yury Kushnarev, 9 Alexander Shakirov, 8 Vyacheslav Grachev, 7 Artem Fatakhov, 6 Andrey Garbuzov, 5 Denis Antonov, 4 Alexander Voytov, 3 Ivan Prishchepenko, 2 Vladislav Korshunov (captain), 1 Sergey [...]
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Scotland vs Georgia teams
Scotland v Georgia, Rugby Park, Invercargill – 09:30 14 September 2011 Scotland: 15 Rory Lamont, 14 Max Evans, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Sean Lamont, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Rory Lawson (captain), 8 Kelly Brown, 7 Ross Rennie, 6 Al Strokosch, 5 Jim Hamilton, 4 Nathan Hines, 3 Euan Murray, 2 Scott [...]
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New Zeeland bulldozes Tonga in RWC 2011 opener
It’s not that we expected an upset or anything, with a very predictable score in the end. Perhaps a higher score if the halftime score was anything to go by. This was very entertaining opening match that hopefully spells a very exciting tournament. After running away a bit in the first half, the All Blacks [...]
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Join our Rugby World Cup 2011 SuperBru Pool
These days no sports blog can take itself seriously without indulging their readers in a bit of sports prediction fun. Obviously Up and Under won’t be any different with our introductory tournament being the Rugby World Cup on Superbru. For now this will be a friendly pool, put we’re pulling some strings for some official [...]
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New Zeeland RWC 2011 squad
The All blacks tasked to take on the world has been announced. No surprizes, but wow, can’t wait to see SBW in action in the title hunt! Forwards John Afoa Ben Franks Owen Franks Andrew Hore Richie McCaw Keven Mealamu Kieran Read Brad Thorn Adam Thomson Samuel Whitelock Ali Williams Tony Woodcock Victor Vito. Backs [...]